Oppressive Quotes

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Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat… — John F. Kerry
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control… — Bobby Sands
The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its… — Osama bin Laden
While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith… — Peter Tatchell
The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler. — Muhammad
I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn… — Matt Walsh
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies… — Barbara Deming
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins,… — Pat Robertson
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly
...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness… — John Blacking
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered… — Camille Paglia
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender… — Judith Butler
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is… — Mary Daly
I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really… — Tim Burton
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind,… — L. Ron Hubbard
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for… — Jim Garrison
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide.… — James W. Loewen
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century… — James Hillman

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